Hair veiling and holding net



Dec. 14, 1965 M. P. CROUCH HAIR VEILING AND HOLDING NET Filed Sept. 24, 1963 Fig.2

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United States Patent 3,222,685 HAIR VEILING AND HOLDING NET Mary Phyllis Crouch, 720 Cayuga St., Storm Lake, Iowa Filed Sept. 24, 1963, Ser. No. 311,055 1 Claim. ((1 22il7) This invention relates to a head-covering, hair-veiling net of a type which is hooded or capped over the wearer's head in a manner to keep the hair orderly and neatly in place and which is currently being used in lieu of a scarf.

Many women and girls are presently using hood-type nets for hair holding purposes. Such hoods are referred to as head nets, Windbreakers, hair holding caps and so on. They are made of open-meshed veil-type material, decorative tulle, and are dressy and attractive. The type commonly marketed has .a gathered neck portion defined by a ribbon-type collar with free ends which are tied into a bow drawn around the neck and located beneath the chin. Thus constructed and worn the net resembles and is sometimes designated as a hair-holding bonnet.

The primary object in the instant matter is to provide an improved retaining collar, the latter characterized by a hem having a split resilient band or ring pocketed and concealed therein. Experience has shown that a collar, thus constructed better serves the purpose for which it is intended, is feasible, and desirably comfortable.

In carrying out a preferred embodiment of the invention the hood or capportion of the net is substantially unchanged, that is, corresponds with the ornate tulle nets which are now being currently marketed as Windbreakers and the like. The neck embracing, hood holding collar comprises a simple gathered cloth or equivalent hem, the split band or ring being generally C-shaped and confined therein whereby to thus provide a readily applicable and removable retainer with no binding or restraint action whatsoever beneath the wearers chin as is encountered with the aforementioned tied, ribbon construction.

These together with other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

FIGURE 1 is a view in perspective of a head covering, veiling and holding net or hood constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

FIGURE 2 is a view also in perspective but showing how the hood appears when it is being worn;

FIGURE 3 is a view in perspective of the aforementioned collar-constructing ring;

FIGURE 4 is an exaggerated detail section taken on the section line 44 of FIGURE 2.

Referring now to the views of the drawing and in particular to FIGS. 1 and 2 it will be seen that the net corresponds in configuration or shape with the currently worn Windbreaker hoods and caps. Construed as a hood it is referred to generally by the numeral 6 and is fabricated from open-meshed net material such as, for example, fairly stiff but readily shapable decorative tulle. As such it embodies a top or crown portion 8, left and right check-covering sides or side portions 10 and an intervening over-the-head back portion 12 cooperating with the side portions and defining a gradually reduced gathered neck portion denoted generally at 14. Instead 3,222,685 Patented Dec. 14, 1965 of joining the edge of the gathered neck to a ribbon or ribbon-like band, as is generally the case, the improved attaching and retaining collar 16 is provided. This collar as illustrated in FIG. 4 comprises a cloth or an equivalent hem having inner and outer plies 18 and 20 with a web portion 22, the cooperating edge of the veiling 24 being tucked between the components 18 and 20 and stitched or otherwise held in place as at 26. The pocket thus provided as indicated generally at 22 serves to contain and conceal an elastic or spring retainer 28 which is C-shaped and which may comprise a length of spring wire or an equivalent plastic or similar resilient band having blunt free end portions as at 30 which are spaced apart. Thus with the hem being generally C-shaped and the resilient ring C-shaped and the two being assembled a readily applicable and removable neck-embracing and retaining collar 16 is thus provided.

The collar should be such and so attached that it provides the desired gathered neck portion 14. It should not be either heavy or under noticeable tension. In other words it should be light in weight and of materials appropriate for practical manufacturing needs and should likely embrace the neck of the wearer in a seemingly obvious and comforting manner.

Hair retaining cap-type veils and hoods are meeting with widespread adoption and use and are accordingly quite popular at beach and seaside resorts, when riding in an automobile with the top down, and for many and varied outdoor activities where one desires to hold the hair in place without resorting to the use of a scarf of one type or another. It is submitted therefore that the improvement herein disclosed is destined to meet with the approval of manufacturers, retailers and users particularly in that it well serves the novel purposes for which it is intended.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention as claimed.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

A hair veiling and holding net comprising: a hood made of attractively dressy tulle having requisite selfshape-sustaining properties and embodying a crown, opposed side portions, a back portion, and a neck-embracing portion, said neck-embracing portion having a terminal lower edge, an inelastic cloth hem C-shaped in plan and upper edges enclosing and stitched to the lower edge of said neck portion, said hem being of a restricted diameter and serving to circumferentially contract and gather the components of said neck portion, said hem having forward terminal free end portions which when in use are spaced apart a predetermined distance from each other, and a substantially C-shaped resilient wire member of a diameter corresponding to the diameter of said hem and completely pocketed and retentively concealed in said hem, said wire member being substantially circular in cross-section and that portion of the hem containing the same being snugly and c-onformingly oriented and cooperable therewith, said hem and the resilient wire member confined therein providing a readily applicable and removable hood positioning and retaining collar, the diameter of said col- 3 lar being significantly smaller than the hood proper so that when the hood is being worn the hair enclosing side and back portions are distended and accordingly project beyond and overhang the outer periphery of said collar.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 2/1927 Hogan 2174 X 11/1928 Busey 2198 X 5/ 1961 Gettinger 2204 12/1961 Brunetto 2205 7/1962 Schwartz 252 FOREIGN PATENTS 5/ 1937 Great Britain.

JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner. 

